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Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

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Although Joy Ann-Reid no longer has her daily show “The Reid Report” on MSNBC, she remains a regular fixture on the cable news network as a national correspondent. She also continues to write stories online at places like the Daily Beast, and you can now call her an author. Her book, “Fracture: Barack Obama, the […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

Sarasota County GOP Chairman Joe Gruters has been selected as the state chairman of Donald Trump‘s campaign in Florida. Susan Wiles, managing partner of the Jacksonville office of the lobbying group Ballard Partners, will serve as co-chairwoman. Wiles is perhaps best known for managing Rick Scott‘s successful 2010 campaign for governor. “My message is clearly resonating […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

Marco Rubio is far from the first U.S. Senator to miss a number of votes while he runs for president, but he seems to be getting bashed more than most. By most accounts, he’s missed up to 30 percent of his votes in the Senate this year. While that makes him worse than fellow GOP Senators/presidential […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

Although Marco Rubio has yet to truly break through in the 2015-2016 GOP presidential campaign, he’s been doing enough to keep himself in the game. A Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday shows him in third place in Iowa with 13 percent support, an eight-point increase from a month ago. And Democratic-leaning groups certainly haven’t written […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

One is an outlier, two a trend. Donald Trump’s hegemony in the GOP presidential polls has been cracked this week in the socially conservative state of Iowa. A day after Dr. Ben Carson took an eight-point lead over Donald Trump in a Quinnipiac survey, a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll out on Friday has Carson up […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

Will Iowa voters be getting trashed again by Donald Trump today? (Or by one of his interns?) We saw the unprecedented action of a Trump apology yesterday, after he re-tweeted a tweet from one of his interns who wrote, “#BenCarson is now leading in the #polls in #Iowa… Too much #Monsanto in the #corn creates issues in the brain? @realDonaldTrump #GOP“ That came after the […]

Mitch PerryOctober 22, 2015

St. Petersburg City Councilwoman Darden Rice, who at one point this year flirted with the possibility of running in the CD 13 seat being vacated by GOP incumbent David Jolly, said Thursday she’s endorsing newly minted candidate Charlie Crist in the contest. “Pinellas County deserves a voice in Washington, but Congress is more interested in […]

Mitch PerryOctober 22, 2015

Although a legislative proposal to put an end to permanent alimony died in the Regular Session this year, it’s coming back in 2016, and a women’s group opposing the proposal is calling on Gov. Rick Scott to put a stop to it if reaches his desk. UniteWomen.Org FL is opposing SB 250, a bill sponsored by Brandon Republican state […]

Mitch PerryOctober 22, 2015

Donald Trump, the solid front-runner in Florida and nationally in the GOP presidential race, will be the sixth and final candidate to speak at the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit taking place Nov. 13-14 at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando. Twelve candidates in all will participate in the event, a fundraiser for the RPOF and one that looked […]

Mitch PerryOctober 22, 2015

Thanks in large part to female support, Ben Carson has taken an eight-point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa, home of the first caucus, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday. Carson is at 28 percent, and Trump is at 20 percent. A month ago, a Q poll had Trump at 27 percent, and […]

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Lake Mary’s team celebrates in the eighth inning of the Little League World Series Championship game against Taiwan. Florida won in eight innings 2-1. Image via AP.

MSNBC’s Joy Ann-Reid discusses rocky relationship between Barack Obama, black intelligentsia

Joe Gruters to run Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Florida

Lois Frankel knocks Marco Rubio’s absentee record, says Florida needs two senators

Marco Rubio attacked for being out of the mainstream in American Bridge ad

Ben Carson up by 9 points in Iowa in new Bloomberg poll

Mitch Perry Report for 10.23.15 – Friday follies

Darden Rice backs Charlie Crist in CD 13 race

Women’s group calls on Rick Scott to reject Tom Lee’s proposed alimony bill

Donald Trump to close out first full day of RPOF Sunshine Summit

Ben Carson takes 8-point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa